Bachmann is also fighting the troubling storyline, already gaining traction within the Iowa political class, that she has difficulty functioning outside a tightly controlled bubble of advisers and aggressive security personnel.

CNN: Bachmann faces complications in Iowa

The class action, banging around Iowa state courts for six years, is one of the last suits remaining in Microsoft's long antitrust battles and is on the docket for November.

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Today, we're going to continue the conversation that I'm having across Iowa and America about how we rebuild the road to a strong and prosperous middle class.

CNN: Clinton's October 9, 2007 speech on retirement security

Speaking from a Hilton hotel in Washington through a live video feed to Iowa supporters, Mr. Obama criticized Republicans as champions of the wealthy over the middle class.

WSJ: Romney Ekes Past Santorum to Win Iowa